Corset-clasp



(No Model.)

J. H. HAVILAND.

CORSET CLASP. H

No. 352,820. Pa tented Nov. 16, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT O FICE.

JOSEPHH. HAVILAND, or JACKSON, MICHIGAN.

CORSET-CLASP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 352,820, dated November 16,1886. Application filed J ulyll, 1886. Serial No. 208,266. (No model.)

to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,which form a part of this specification, and in which- 7 Figure 1 is a view of as much of a corset as I 5 will illustrate the application of my improved clasp. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional View of the same taken through a clasp. Fig. 3 is a view of the steel blade having the clasps secured to it; and Fig. 4 is aview of one of the clasps.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention has relation to clasps or clamps for corsets; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of a clamp or clasp consisting of a bent metallic lip, which may clamp and hold by friction the covered steel of the opposite edge of the corset, as hereinafter more fully described andclaimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A indicates the steel blade, to which the clamps or clasps B are secured, and C is the steel blade at the opposite edge of the corset.

3 5 These blades are covered by the fabric D,with which the entire corset is covered, the said fabric being folded over the steel, having the clasps in a backwardly-doubled fold, E, folded upon the outside of the corset, while the plain 0 steel blade is inclosed in a backwardly-doubled fold, F, folded upon the inner side of the corset.

The clamps or clasps consist each of a lip or plate, G, having its outer end curved slightly outward, as shown at H, andof three prongs, I, I, and J, formed by two cuts from the end of the plate from which the clasp is formed.

' The steel blade is formed with longitudinal slots K, of the same length as the width of being bcnt slightly out of the plane of these outer prongs and inserted through a slot, L, in the covering of the blade, the lips of the clasps being bent sufficiently out of the plane of the prongs to admit of the covered steel blade of the other edge of the corset to be inserted under the lips, so as to be firmly clamped between the lips and the blade. It will thus be seen that the edges of the corset will be held together by the frictional resistance between the lips and covered steel blade having the clasps and the covered plain steel blade, the clasps thus providing a simple fastening for the corset, which will hold the edges together with sufficient strength to prevent them from becoming disengaged during ordinary use, while the edges may very easily be fastened and again unfastened, it being only necessary to force the edge of the plain covered blade under the lips of the clasps, when the edges are fastened, while for unfastening the edges, the plain blade is drawn out from under the lips.

The clasps may be very easily secured to the slotted blade by simply inserting the cen- 8o tral prong in the slot, and thereupon bending the outer halves of the outer prongs around the edge of the steel blade, when the clasp is secured, andmay have its lip inserted through the slot in the covering.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States v 1. The herein-described corset-clasp, consisting of a plate having a curved lip, H, at 0 point where the plate is slotted to form the prongs, substantially as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

2. The combination, with the slotted steel In testimony that I claim the foregoing as blade A, of the clasp-plates B, provided with my own I have hereunto affixed my signature the curved lip H, and prongs I, J, and I, conin presence of two witnesses.

structed as described, and having an offset or JOSEPH H. HAVILAND. 5 shoulder between said prongs and the curved Witnesses:

lip, substantially as and for the purpose shown A. M. WALKER,

and specified. W. It. SHAW. 

